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The Terminology of Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Information, Knowledge, Collaboration and Communications

By Heather Creech on April 12, 2007

This IISD Knowledge Communications Practice Note offers an extensive glossary of terms related to sustainable development communications. The glossary covers: principal distinctions; terminology of knowledge processes; typology of collaborative relationships; and an inventory of communications practices and tools. These notes were originally prepared as background for a study on knowledge mobilization for IUCN – The World Conservation Union; it has subsequently been expanded and updated. For more information on the full study, click here.

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Copyright: IISD, 2007

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